Customizing reports
You can customize reports to specifically investigate a performance problem in more
detail than what is provided in the default reports.
- Creating custom reports
If the default reports do not address your needs, you can create your own reports. - Viewing trending reports
To view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time, open the trend report for a run. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application. - Filtering results
By filtering the results that are displayed in a report, you can remove unnecessary data and focus on the data that is significant to you. If you save the changes, the report will contain these updates the next time that you open it. - Customizing the appearance of report graphs
To display the data in a table, bar chart, or line chart in a manner that caters to your test requirements, use the controls that are available in the View Options of a report. - Changing the report displayed during a run
Use this page to select the default report that opens during a run. Typically, you select Determine default report based on protocols in test, which determines the protocols that you are testing and automatically opens the appropriate protocol-specific reports. - Modifying counters in a graph
To gather additional information for diagnosing performance problems, you can modify the counters that are displayed in a graph. - Correcting time offset
Response time breakdown and resource monitoring data is time stamped using the system clock of the host computer. If there are differences between the system clocks of the host computers that you include in a test, then response time breakdown and resource monitoring data are skewed in reports. The best practice is to synchronize the system clocks on all computers that you include in a test. When this is not possible, you can correct the time offset of each host computer after a test run. Typically, correct the time offset on all computers to match the system clock of the workbench computer.